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Old 06-07-2008, 04:13 PM   #1
Springs
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installing nvidia drivers.. getting annoyed now


reinstalled my fedora 8 onto my computer and im trying to install the nvidia drivers so i can run dual screen etc..

im still new to linux/fedora 8 so i dont no all the commands..

ive followed the install through and its saying that

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ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM
installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed,
you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path'
command line option.
now ive gone through yum and looked and installed anything names kernel-source and kernel-devel but it still comes up the same..

ive got it to install before but have forgotten

any ideas?
 
Old 06-07-2008, 06:25 PM   #2
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Why not install the Livna package kmod-nvidia or one of their nvidia legacy packages, depending on your needs? That's what most people do.

Otherwise, if you are dead set on continuing with the nvidia driver install, then install kernel-devel and kernel-headers.
 
Old 06-07-2008, 06:27 PM   #3
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Hi, If you are trying to install the nVidia proprietory drivers from the nVidia site, you will need to have the kernel sources for your running kernel installed and also built.

To do this, look in /usr/src/ there should be a link to the linux(ver) directory called linux.

If that is there then you have the kernel-sources(developement package) installed, but they may not be configured.

You may need to compile the kernel before the nVidia drivers can be installed.
 
Old 06-07-2008, 10:10 PM   #4
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Hello:

Perhaps you missed the "sticky" post at the top of the Fedora forum: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...64#post2130964
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A must read,before installing Nvidia & Ati
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg01178.html
From https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo...msg01178.html:
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[...]
Both ATI and Nvidia, and perhaps even other 3rd party drivers out there
come in some form of tarball or equivalent form from the particular
vendor. Most users seem to favour the hardware vendor supplied drivers
directly, rather than using more sanely packaged 3rd party packages that
contain the same drivers. This is very unfortunate, because installing
these 3rd party tarball driver installations is very harmful to your
clean OS installation.


Both ATI and Nvidia's proprietary video driver installation utilities
replace the Red Hat supplied libGL library with their own libGL.
Nvidia's driver installs a replacement libglx.a X server module,
removing the Red Hat supplied X.Org module in the process.
ATI's
driver may or may not replace libglx.a with it's own, I haven't checked
(but if someone could confirm that, I'd appreciate knowing for certain).
[...]
Conclusions:
If you are going to use any 3rd party proprietary drivers, please do
yourself and everyone else a huge favour, and at least get your
drivers from reputable 3rd party rpm package repositories such as
livna.org which packages both the nvidia and ati proprietary drivers
in rpm packages which install the drivers sanely without overwriting
Red Hat/Fedora supplied files. These 3rd party packages install
the files in alternative locations, and configure the X server et al.
appropriately so that everything works. Since they do not blow
away OS supplied files, you can use the OS supplied drivers still
by reconfiguring xorg.conf. Also, if you decide to uninstall the
3rd party drivers via rpm, they just go away and cause no further
harm to the system. So PLEASE USE THIRD PARTY RPM PACKAGES if you
_must_ use 3rd party drivers. It helps create world peace.

If you choose to install ATI or Nvidia tarball/whatever drivers
directly from ATI/Nvidia (or any other vendor for that matter), your
system is 100% completely and totally unsupported.
Even if you are
using _our_ drivers, your 3rd party driver installation may have
blown away our libGL, our libglx.a or any other files that have been
supplied by our OS. As such, your system is not supported.
[...]
Even after knowing this, I got impatient a few months back, and decided not to wait for Livna to get around to updating kmods. The resulting mess created by the nvidia "blob" binary installer worked, but took far, far longer to un-do in the long run than if I had just done the "sane" thing and waited for Livna.

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Old 06-08-2008, 02:32 AM   #5
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Hullo,
Sorry to hear about your problems installing the Nvidia driver.
I am running kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.x86_64 and installed kernel-devel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.x86_64.rpm.
I am also running an Nvidia 9600GT card, and downloaded the nvidia driver binary 173.14.05 and followed their instructions. It built a kernel module and installed without any problems.
Not sure if this is any help to you other than to show that it is possible.
Have you looked your log files to see if there is anything that gives a clue as to why things are going wrong?

Cheers,
 
Old 06-08-2008, 06:56 AM   #6
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livna has sorted it.. thanks for the reminder..



now im trying to get the dual screens to work.. ive got it to show a stretched screen but im trying to get it to have 2 single screens.. any ideas?
 
Old 06-08-2008, 02:12 PM   #7
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livna has sorted it.. thanks for the reminder..



now im trying to get the dual screens to work.. ive got it to show a stretched screen but im trying to get it to have 2 single screens.. any ideas?
Assuming that you installed the REV. 169.12 driver packages?

They come with a boatload of documentation - see:
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-x11-drv-169.12/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-x11-drv-169.12/html/chapter-13.html (configuring twin-view)
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-x11-drv-169.12/html/appendix-b.html (xorg.conf options)

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